Batman: The Animated Series: Episode Trivia
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- In Mayor Hill's office Harvey Dent is seen flipping a coin. He is not seen doing this again until the two-part "Two Face" episode.
- After battling with the Man-Bat creature, Batman's face is bloody and bruised.This is the first and only time in this series that a character is shown bleeding, as some parents found the image too disturbing for younger children.
- This episode introduces not only Bruce Wayne/Batman, but also Alfred Pennyworth, Commissioner James Gordon, District Attorney Harvey Dent, Detective Harvey Bullock and Mayor Hamilton Hill.
- Toon Disney does a rather interesting edit to this quote...
Mr. Freeze: Think of it Batman. To never again walk upon a summer's day with a hot wind in your face and a warm hand to hold. Oh yes, I'd kill for that.
Toon Disney cuts out "I'd kill for that" making it not nearly as emotional. - Goof
Two times the colors of the bat logo on Batman's chest switches, yellow bat on a black oval.
The first time just after Batman breaks his 'ice-cuffs', while hanging upside down.
The second time when he lands after knocking out the guy behind the control panel of the freeze canon. - Batman's uttering "My god!" was quite unusual for a network cartoon at the time. (1992) Normally, the censors wouldn't have passed words directly discussing religion, like god and hell. In particular, using "My god!" in that context would have been considered blasphemous by most cartoon censors. Taking God's name in vain was as equally frowned upon as even positively discussing religion in cartoons.
- The tape of the accident that created Mr. Freeze features close-ups and jump cuts. If the recording was automated as it appears to be, this is not possible.
- When Batman is dressed as a security guard he reaches into his Batbelt and pulls out the key card. As he reaches for the card, it appears in his hand out of nowhere.
- When the legs of one of Mr. Freeze's thugs are frozen he is wearing shoes. Later when the ice surrounding his feet and legs thaw in a chemical bath in the batcave, he is not wearing shoes.
- Toon Disney does a rather interesting edit to this quote...
- When Batman drops Bell into the rooftop pool, the police immediately tell him that he is under arrest. Why would they arrest someone when they don't even know who it is? Even if they saw Bell's face, they have no reason to arrest him.
- When Germs and Bell catch Hagen in the Daggett Industries laboratory, he turns around and claims he's Bruce Wayne. Surely he doesn't think this will work, since they were with him when he originally impersonated Wayne?
- When Bell first appears inside the tramway, he isn't wearing his headphones. However, he's suddenly wearing them on his first closeup after Lucius Fox is pinned under the sign.
- When Bell and Germs catch Hagen before the first commercial break, they're both armed with pistols. After the break, not only is Germs now holding a shotgun, but Bell's weapon has disappeared entirely.
- The jar of Renuyu that Hagen hurls at the window is empty (or so he claims), but when Teddy looks at it on the floor, it's still got some of the cream in it.
- When he is putting on his costume after he get's out of jail, Bruce/Batman says that Bell said he didn't know who impersonated Bruce Wayne. Bell didn't say anything like that. He had fainted when Batman was questioning him.
- One of Daggett's bodyguards loses his hat when he's knocked aside by Clayface, but it's back on in the next shot.
- Germs' trenchcoat mysteriously disappears by the time Clayface gets him to the roof of the hospital, despite the fact that his arms are bound in such a way as would prevent the coat from being removed.
- The jar of Renuyu that Batman finds in Hagen's dressing room doesn't match the one from the previous episode at all.
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- Even though this was the first "Joker Episode" to air on TV; it was actually the fourth episode made with the Joker.
- How exactly did Charlie know that the bomb was a fake? And furthermore, shouldn't the Joker recognize his own gadgets?
- When the Joker reads Charlie's driver's license, he reads his full name "Charles Michael Collins". Later, we see that it reads Charles Collins, with no mention of his middle name.
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- When Batman breaks free of the flytrap, his cape is ripped and torn. When he ducks under Ivy's dart, it's whole again, but is ripped by the passage of the dart. As he runs from Ivy, his cape is patched again.
- When Poison Ivy first appears from behind Batman, you can see that her legs are bare. In the next scene - and all the scenes thereafter - her legs are covered with green tights.
- First episode that skips a day then airs.
- Water sprinklers usually won't work on a gasoline fire. The bank should have gone up in flames.
- This episode is first on the list of premises in the series bible. Originally, the Joker kidnaps Jordan outright and forces Batman through a series of traps to rescue him.
- The cards that Joker first launches at Batman disappear from the wall after he launches his final volley.
- When The Joker, (in disguise as the clown entertaining at the party) first holds up the poster featuring the magician "Prosciutto" it is spelled "Proscuitto." Then, the next time the poster is revealed "Prosciutto" is spelled correctly. BUT, when Batman matches the poster up with the actual location, the "u" was before the "i" again. Also, the lettering is different. The first and third time the lettering is in print and the second time it is cursive.
- Based on the Batman comic book "There is no hope on Crime Alley".
- Crime Alley is presented as the old "Park Row" street. However, the street signs of both the old and new street show "Park Ave" instead.
- One has to question why a two million dollar sting was being carried out by one detective, one officer, and a rookie. Also, why were two of the three officers not on the scene until the last minute?
- In Bullock's flashback, the gangster with the scarf loses his hat and doesn't bother to stop and collect it when he and his comrade flee the fire. However, when the pair are shown exiting the warehouse at the beginning of the episode, he has his hat back on.
- There's a continuity error in the fight between Temple Fugate and Batman. Batman's suit gets ripped across the chest, but every shot following that one fails to show any sign of the rip.
- When Batman rips the masks off The Joker's henchmen, they were facing him, meaning that when Batman held their masks, the the faces of the masks should've been facing him as well. However, when he held their masks, the faces on the masks were facing the camera, away from Batman.
- In this episode, The Joker wears a sort of bubble-helmet instead of the typical gas mask and his henchmen wear protective masks which look like clown masks. At other times in the series, his henchmen wear regular gas masks when he's using his standard laughing gas.
- When Alfred talks while holding the drawing of the bath, the top part of the drawing briefly disappears.
- The Joker stabs the barrel Batman's in six times in all directions, yet when it shows the barrel from the outside again all six holes are on the same side. Also, when Captain Clown tosses the barrel into the river, the holes briefly disappear.
- This is the first episode in which Efrem Zimbalist Jr does the voice of Alfred, taking over from Clive Revil, Efrem still did the voice up until his appearance on the Justice League episode "Starcrossed, Part 3".
- When Alfred pours a glass of the Demetrite while in the batcave, the liquid is obviously a dark green. However, as he lifts the glass to drink from it, the liquid momentarily disappears. It is back to dark green in the next camera angle.
- When Bruce combined Poison Ivy's chemical with human blood in a test tube, a violent chemical reaction resulted creating an rapidly growing vine and destroying the test tube.
This is obviously exaggerated for dramatic effect as Alfred and others consumed the same chemical and had no such reaction in their stomachs as the chemical entered their bloodstreams. - The clothing, jewelry, and eyeglasses worn by Ivy's 'grove' have begun to turn to wood. None of those things would have turned to wood, since they are not made of human flesh, and therefore would not react to Ivy's enzyme.
- The names of enzymes predominantly (if not always) end with the suffix '-ase'. Naming an enzyme 'demetrite', rather than 'demitrase' makes your story that much more suspect, especially to people who are running chemical companies.
- The part where the thug kicks mud onto Harvey's suit, is the same side that becomes "dirty" or in other words, where he is hidesouly deformed. After that incident Harvey shows his two-face side by attacking the thug.
- When Harvey is initially taken to hospital following the accident, you can clearly see his neck (and presumably all lower) is unaffected, as is his hair. When Two-Face emerges, the skin on the left side of his neck is blue, and his hair is half white. In the second part of the episode, it becomes clear that even his left hand has been turned blue.
- Whenever Two-Face makes a decision by flipping his coin, when the marred side is up he acts as Two-Face, but when the clean side is up he acts as Harvey would act.
- When Two-Face is putting the stolen cash in his wallet, we see a card on the right side of his wallet. The name on the card is TWOFACE. What kind of company lets people get cards with names other than legal names?
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- When Bruce was in the falling elevator, was he wearing his Batman costume underneath his business suit? He evidently wasn't carrying it in a briefcase or similar, as can be seen from previous shots.
- It is implied that after kidnapping Bruce, Biggis' men take the Studebaker to the junkyard. But how exactly did they know this was Bruce's car, since he was walking along on foot when they jumped him?
Reply: We don't actually see them taking it. It could've easily been towed. The truck just happened to be at the same location. - One more instance of one of Biggis' men seemingly being in two places at once: A hefty man in a white shirt wearing a miner's helmet with a whip on his belt is shown helping herd new prisoners from the truck and into the camp; mere seconds later, this exact same man is the one in the watchtower who spots Bruce escaping and alerts everyone.
- When Bruce and Dan Riley are fighting Boss Biggis' men to protect Salvo Smith, Riley punches a bearded guy, knocking him down. In the very next shot, of Biggis yelling at his men to get them, the same bearded man is shown in the background behind Biggis.
- When Boss Biggis' men seize the prisoner in the green shirt, there is a bald man with glasses and a blue outfit standing amongst the prisoners. Later, when Biggis' men are bringing in new prisoners (as Bruce is escaping), this exact same man can be seen being taken from the truck, implying he is a new arrival.
- It is implied that after kidnapping Bruce, Biggis' men take the Studebaker to the junkyard. But how exactly did they know this was Bruce's car, since he was walking along on foot when they jumped him?
- Jervis's hair is something between brown and grey, but after his date with Alice it turns blonde.
Reply: It could be that he dyed it.
- Jervis's hair is something between brown and grey, but after his date with Alice it turns blonde.
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- The title "Perchance to Dream" is not only based off a Shakespeare quote, but a Twilight Zone episode in which a man is afraid of falling asleep for fear of being killed in a reality that seems so utopian-like. This plot is similar to that of the Twilight Zone's.
- It is possible to read in a dream, it just requires self-awareness.
- There are several events in the dream part of this episode that seem to contradict reality. Notice that the grappling hook and rope that Bruce buys can't possibly be long enough to climb up the bell tower. Also, when "Batman" swings down to the bell tower...where is he swinging from? There's no place nearby higher than the tower. These may all be indicative of the twisted nature of the dream-reality rather than actual errors, however.
- There are 'Bat-signals" in the eyes of the police woman, just before the police car is going to hit Batman.
- At one point, while dealing with the sewer alligators, Batman makes the comment "I thought you were endangered." American alligators were removed from the endangered species list in 1987, prior to the creation of this episode.
- In one scene you can see Bruce's eye pupils out of proportion.
- In one scene, "Wayne Enterprises Storage" is written on what looks like a water tank. However, it is spelled "Wayne Enterppises" in the early shots (this is subsequently corrected).
- Sodium pentothal, a.k.a. the "Truth Serum," is commonly used in TV shows to extract information form prisoners. However, while under the effect of the drug, the patient may lose his inhibitions, but he does not lose self-control, which means that Will would not have told anything he did not want to.
- Dr. Dorian told Batman that he'd have a 5-minute head-start to get away from Tygrus. Not surprisingly, Dorian only waited 5 seconds after Batman started running before he as much as told Tygrus to "sic' him".
Reply: A very simple answer to this: He lied!
- Dr. Dorian told Batman that he'd have a 5-minute head-start to get away from Tygrus. Not surprisingly, Dorian only waited 5 seconds after Batman started running before he as much as told Tygrus to "sic' him".
- From this episode perhaps the movie Batman Begins storyline was formed off of. In the episode and the movie the Scarecrow is polluting the water with his fear gas underneath Arkham Asylum.
- Arkham Asylum houses psychopathic killers. Why would they have easily detachable fire axes mounted on the walls?
- Batman cuts his way out of a straightjacket. Being an accomplished escape artist, shouldn't Batman be able to get out of a straight jacket on his own?
- Towards the end of the episode, a doctor fills a syringe and the color of the fluid jumps suddenly to orange. The position of the syringe jumps as well.
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- Bruce's lips don't move when he speaks while taking the drink from Alfred.
- Judge Maria Vargas from the episode "The Strange Secret of Bruce Wayne" appears in this episode as the arraignment judge.
- Even though Catwoman was tied up one might think that she could still attempted to roll off the conveyer belt when Harley Quinn had tried to escape.
- The giant penny was only big enough for Batman's body to be tied to, but in every episode after this, it's about 5 times bigger.
- The construction company name seen on the sign is Sebast Construction. Dick Sebast directed this episode.
- When Professor Milo picks up the Gotham Times to tear apart, there is a caption that states "Amateur photographer Bruce Timm takes rare photo of Batman in action."
- Leopards is incorrectly spelled lepords in the scene where Harvey Bullock visits the zoo to confront John Hamner, the zoo security guard.
- Steroids, even a wolf derivative, facilitate repititions during a workout. They would not provide an instant muscle gain!
- Milo's coat changes color during the scene where he's talking with the wolf
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- In this episode, the Joker sings a song about Batman on the tune of Jingle Bells.
"Jingle Bells, Batman smells, Robin lays and egg, the batmobile has lost a wheel, Joker got away"
This is exact song also sung by Bart Simpson in an episode of The Simpsons. - Among the "audience" is Batman, Robin, Alfred, and others. But how could Joker know about Alfred?
- Okay, there are a lot of weird inconsistencies all throughout the episode (like the observatory telescope becoming a cannon??), but one of the more obstinate goofs occurs inside the Laffco toy factory. When Donner and Blitzen open fire on Batman's cloak, we see that it's riddled with bullet holes. However, when he puts it back on, there are no holes.
- When the Joker is shooting his television program a shot of the audience is shown. The audience is of cardboard people. Among the people shown are show regulars Commissioner Gordon, Officer Renee Montoya, Batman, Mayor Hill, Robin, Alfred, Harvey Dent and Harvey Bullock.
- This episode introduces the Joker, Robin and Summer Gleeson. It also gives us our first look at Arkham Asylum.
- In this episode, the Joker sings a song about Batman on the tune of Jingle Bells.
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- Barbara could know which buttons to push, but how could she know in which order to do it?
- It has been established that Mayor Hill's first name is "Hamilton". However, in this episode, when Hill is abducted, he had been in his office signing official papers with the signature "M. Hill". I don't know about you, but the mayors I've ever met sign documents with their full name, not their title.
- The licence plate on the Riddler's get-a-way car has "????" but wouldn't the police have stopped him because there is no such licence plate number?
- In the scene where Riddler and his men are at the powerplant, the tied-up security guard's shadow is shaped like a question mark.
- When Batman and Robin reach the center of the maze, the Riddler's eye mask and gloves are the correct purple hue. Yet when they show it again a few moments later, the gloves and eye mask are now a washed out greyish purple color.
- When Bruce starts to realize the plan of Kaiser and moves the paper on the wall, that paper suddenly changes from being purple to purple & red with spades and clubs
- LOOK HARD: Joker's not the only one who can cheat at cards. When Bruce checks his cards the first time, he has a 9 and a 3 (12). When he receives a King from Joker, he replaces the 9 with an 8, making 21. He later hands off a deck to Alfred.
- The sign that Joker throws off the car he steals at the casino incorrectly reads "WAN THE CIRIN GNAL JOKERNOCILE."
- Why did Alfred try to use knock-out gas to stop what he knew was a robot? It's no wonder he got taken down!
- Talia is the first person to unmask Batman.
- Several moments in the episode, the bat-emblem doesn't have a bat on it, It's just a yellow circle.
- When the Shadow Agent cuts off Batman's utilities belt, it disappears for one frame.
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- There are currently no trivia for this episode.
- After Ivy and Harley throw Batman into the pool, you can clearly see him opening his mouth while underwater. Evan not considering the pool was highly polluted, opening one's mouth like that underwater would require loss of control to an extent completely impossible for Batman.
- The license plate on Poison Ivy's car reads "ROSEBUD"
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- Note that when Harley Quinn impersonates a lawyer, she states her name as "Harleen Quinzel", which in later episodes is revealed to be her real name.
- This is the first appearance of Bud & Lou, Harley's pet Hyena's
- Look for: In the opening shot with the newspaper that reads 'Batman Slain?', the newspaper goes completely blank for a frame.
- Sidney's nickname "Sid the Squid" was listed as an alias of Tony Zucco, the man who killed Dick Grayson's parents, in a file on the Batcomputer in part one of the episode "Robin's Reckoning."
- Look for: When Batman throws Rupert Thorne over his desk and across the room look at where Batman is standing. You should be able to still see his legs but they disappear from the frame.
- Look for: During the bar fight, look for the bartender who nonchalantly drops the bowl of peanuts onto one of the fighters.
- According to the series bible, the villain framing Zatanna was originally the Gentleman Ghost, a foe that had originally been on the roster of recurring enemies along with Killer Croc and the Ventriloquist. Since he obviously didn't make the cut, they replaced him with a debenair one-timer.
- When using playing cards to tell Bruce's fortune, Zatanna guesses wrong; Bruce had drawn the joker. Nonetheless, Wayne's future was inadvertantly and correctly predicted, since he would encounter the Clown Prince of Crime numerous times as the Batman.
- When Robin looks up Tony Zucco's file on the Batcomputer one of his aliases is "Sid the Squid." In the episode "The Man Who Killed Batman" that is the nickname of the small time hood who is believed to have killed Batman.
- When Penguin is talking to Pierce and tells him to take one step to his left and continue walking, Pierce goes to his right.
- After Batman twists his knee, he hides and ties a splint to his leg, reaching from his shin to his thigh. Later the splint only stretches to his knee, like it's his lower leg that's the problem.
- when the pilot turns on the ZVF system in the helicopter, the sign above the switch reads "ZVE."
- When Batman is wearing a head gadget to help him see, his eyes, normally white are red, which resembles the Batman Duplicate in "His Silicon Soul"
- In Bruce's hotel room a dragon statute used to hold incense repeatedly disappears and changes in color and shape.
- Yuro is said to be the great-great-great grandson of the man who invented "the way of the fang". That hardly seems like a long enough lineage to span the five hundred years since the fighting style was invented.
- On a sign, the word "construction" is misspelled. It reads "Danger Constrution".
- Bruce Wayne's address:
Wayne Manor
1007 Mountain Dr.
Gotham - The man in India said Robin and Talia were taken to a pagaoda in the shadow of Mount Merapi in Malaysia. Mount Merapi is in Indonesia.
- Bruce Wayne's address:
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- At the end, the Ventriloquist is shown at Arkham Asylum making a new Scarface dummy with a hammer and chisel. Do you really think the staff of an insane asylum would give its patients/prisoners access to sharp and blunt weapons?
- Zeus calls Two-Face Janus. However, Janus is a Roman god, not a Greek one. Janus, by the way, is the god the Romans named the month January after.
- Zeus asks Batman (taking him form Hades) if Lord Vulcan has been causing him trouble. However, Vulcan belongs to the Roman pantheon of Gods, so Zeus should have asked about Hephaestus, Vulcan's equivalent in Greek Mythology.
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- Two-Face's teeth are white in almost the entire episode, not yellow as usual
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- There are currently no trivia for this episode.
- There are currently no trivia for this episode.
- Gotham City has a population of about 10 million people according to Mayor Hill, making it one of the biggest, if not the biggest city in the country (by comparison New York City, the largest city in the U.S.A., has about 8 million people).
- In the flashback from the episode Two-Face Batman shouts "Look out, Harvey," but in that episode he actually says "Look out, Dent".
- When Batman turns the Riddler's riddle number upside down, he gets the address of where the crime is taking place, 10 LESLIE. However if you also convert the 10 into letters, you get IOLESLIE, or I OLES LIE. The Riddler may be telling Batman that even though people think he has reformed, "I always lie"
- In episode #73 - 'Time Out of Joint', British actor Terry Thomas clearly serves as model as the British auctioneer.
- When the Clock King is getting ready to "renew" his "acquaintance" with Mayor Hill, he is wearing regular glasses, but after picking up the newspaper he is wearing his clock pointers glasses.
- This is the first episode featuring Harley Quinn that doesn't include The Joker on it
- Lisa Lorain is clearly a parody of comedian and tv personality Roseanne.
- Even though the brainwashed Lisa Lorain refers to herself as "Mighty Mom", the credits dub her "Rolling Pin", a classic weapon for an angry cartoon housewife.
- Catwoman tells the cops that Batgirl is innocent and they simply trust her on her word?
- After Mr. Freeze uses his gun on Robin, Batman covers the ice encased boy with his cape. It doesn't seem to have any heat source of its own, which means that it will only act to preserve the temperature of the ice. The exact opposite of the desired effect.
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- Duvall says he is a Heidelberg fencing champion. Heidelberg was a university in Germany where dueling meant you stood three feet from your opponent and then try to slash each other in the head. The entire point of this stupidity was to give each other big scars to wear as a sign of glory. Hence, Duvall's noticeable scar under his eye.
- In this episode, unlike those previously featuring Scarface, the dummy's mouth moves like other characters' (becoming rounded when pronouncing words like "what"), as if he were flesh instead of wood.
- When Catwoman faces Scarface in the sawmill, the Ventriloquist is seen using both his hands to make Scarface gesture with his arms, only this would leave him with no hand free to operate Scarface's mouth and eyes, which are moving nonetheless!
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- In a shot establishing Alfred on the streets of London, a double-decker bus can be seen driving past in the background, on the right-hand side of the road. The passenger door can also be seen on the right-hand side of the vehicle. In the United Kingdom, automobiles travel on the left-hand side of the road, and (by necessity) have passenger doors on the left-hand side of the vehicle.
- Montoya is shown in uniform, but she was a plain clothes detective by the time of "Deep Freeze," which takes place before this.
- Batman Mask of the Phantasm was released in theaters December 25th, 1993. It wasn't out for long though, because of complaints from critics.
When it was released on vhs, it made more money then it did in theaters. - Batman Mask of the Phantasm's promotional title as Batman Mask of the Phantasm The Animated Movie.
- The backgrounds in Mask Of The Phantasm are motionless.
For example at Bruce's party no one at the party is moving in the background when the two rich women are flirting with him. - Summer Gleeson the news reporter is shown at Arthur Reeves's speech about Batman, but when his speech is shown on tv, it shows a male reporter where she was.
- Batman Mask of the Phantasm was released in theaters December 25th, 1993. It wasn't out for long though, because of complaints from critics.
- Newspaper Headline
Radomski to press "I'm innocent!"
Eric Radomski is one of the creators of the series - One of Valestras pictures show him with Mayor Hill
- Seen on Batman's computer:
O'Neil Funding Corp.
Adams Tool and Die
Puckett & Peterson
The companies are named for comics writers and artists. O'Neil & Adams worked on many DC books including Batman. Puckett and Peterson wrote on the most recent incarnation of Batgirl. - Regarding the Jake Napier alias, the TNBA episode "Beware the Creeper" states that the Joker utilized many a different alias, among them Jack Napier. Thus, in BB: ROTJ, Batman didn't know the real identity of the Joker.
- They never really have explained what happen to the Joker. The assumption is that Batman's love rejects revenge and turns in the Joker. It's also not explained how Batman clears his name. Interestingly, Batman figures out that the Joker is Jack Napier, hitman, but when he looks up the Joker in BB: ROTJ it says "identity unknown."
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